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Earlier this month, journalist and UFOlogist Jaime Maussan presented what he claimed are 1,000 year-old “non-human alien corpses” to Congress in Mexico and now, somehow, the story gets even weirder.
Supposedly, according to Maussan, the “alien corpses” were discovered in the city of Cusco, Peru in 2017.
“These specimens are not part of our evolutionary history on Earth. These aren’t beings that were found after a UFO wreckage,” Maussan said. “They were found in diatom (algae) mines, and were later fossilized.”
He also claims that after testing they determined that they are not part of “our terrestrial evolution” and one-third of the corpses’ DNA is “unknown.”
Maussan even released footage of the bodies being put through X-ray tests and CT scans as some form of evidence that they are real.
Unsurprisingly, Maussan, who is now the subject of a criminal investigation in Peru, drew the ire of multiple scientists, including one who called his discovery “complete nonsense.”
José de Jesús Zalce Benitez, the director of the Health Sciences Research Institute of the Secretary of the Navy, who has been accessory to Maussan in these claims, said after running the tests, “We are once again faced with a body that if it had been modified postmortem, would have a series of alterations that would be visible in these studies. Not having found any of these postmortem characteristics, we are determining that it is an organism that was alive, was intact, was biological and was in gestation.”
Just one problem. Or, well, another problem.
Video from the French TV show 66 Minutes, taken in 2018, shows what appears to be eerily similar bodies that were debunked as being made up of, according to Indy 100, a “hodgepodge of human and animal bones.”
That video, recently shared on Reddit, explains how these “alien corpses” were made.
“One of the thigh bones is actually a femur, only facing the wrong way round, while the other one is a tibia and they’re completely mismatched with the hip bone,” the commentator explained. “There’s no joint there at all.”
He continued, adding that “some of the bones are simply chopped off” and that the “pseudo phalanges are facing in different directions on her left and right hands.”
Perhaps whoever created the fake alien “just forgot to turn them the right way,” he joked.
The “ET” corpses were debunked way back in 2021.
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